Currently I am working on an insurgency game mode; where one team has to defend some caches and use guerilla tactics, whilst the other team has a smaller size but the advantage of firepower and vehicles.
I was into playing the mods for the original and played some of 2142 on PC.
Has the official multiplayer gameplay held up? I did try a release around the time of RDR2 on Xbox and it had seemed like pay to play may have messed with it at some point.
Curious if the mod support seems like a jailbreak from the official multiplayer.
Reject US car imports, instead let China flood the EU and UK with cheap and dangerous cars like BYD, Maxxus, Jaecoo, Chery etc.
It seems myopic for this group to go after American vehicles and the size of their market share in the EU and UK, whilst China guts our car market with a thousand cuts from the other side.
I could not find one negative article about China on their website, maybe it's not an area of focus for them (or they're bought out already)
As a Brit I am less worried about my VW Passat blowing up or having some wiretap back to Beijing, or locking me out of the car when the firmware defaults back to Mandarin.
Some MFA requirement to publish a new version of the package would be a good idea. In me experience releasing a new version of software is a big enough deal that the product owner is on hand to authorize the release via a separate device no matter how automated the pipeline is.
Claude 4.5 - "Claude Flagged this input and didn't process it"
Gemma 3.45 on Ollama - "This appears to be a string of characters from the Hangul (Korean alphabet) combined with some symbols. It's not a coherent sentence or phrase in Korean."
GrokAI - "Uh-oh, too much information for me to digest all at once. You know, sometimes less is more!"
> Claude 4.5 - "Claude Flagged this input and didn't process it"
I've gotten this a few times while exploring around LLMs as interpreters.
Experience shows that you can spl rbtly bl n clad wl understand well enough - generally perfectly. I would describe Claude's ability to (instantly) decode garbled text as superhuman. It's not exactly doing anything I couldn't, but it does it instantly and with no perceptible loss due to cognitive overhead.
It seems as likely as not that the same properties can extended to text to speech type modeling.
Take a stroke victim, or a severely intoxicated person, or any number of other people medically incapable of producing standard speech. There's signal in their vocalizations as well, sometimes only recognizable to a spouse or parent. Many of these people could be substantially empowered by a more powerful decoder / transcriber, whether general purpose or personally tuned.
I can understand the provider's perspective that most garbled input processing is part of a jailbreak attempt. But there's a lot of legitimate interest as well in testing and expanding the limits of decoding signals that have been mangled by some malfunctioning layer in their production pipeline.
I've not got kids yet, but I do wonder if the best way to prepare them for the internet is by teaching them the many dangers by navigating it with them (scams, grooming, bullying, hacking)?
I wonder if any of the original devs will stumble upon the author's article and then remember why they did those weird file offsets.
There was a difference in the PC and Xbox versions, so it will be interesting to find out if the author sees any snippets or missing game assets in the Xbox version.
Agreed - a boiled egg is absolutely safe after a day. Had many I've "acquired" at hotel breakfast buffets, and left at the bottom of my backpack. Only to consume +1,+2 days later.
I think the author meant well with their security metaphor but overindulged in the classic overthinking engineer and food safety.
If you have played military sim (Milsim) games like Project Reality, Squad or Arma you might appreciate it.
Its quite cool how the game devs have made a lot of tooling to use; they use Typescript to hook into in-game events and functions.
There is a whole community making lots of content too:- https://bfportal.gg/
Currently I am working on an insurgency game mode; where one team has to defend some caches and use guerilla tactics, whilst the other team has a smaller size but the advantage of firepower and vehicles.
Hopefully have it released by Christmas time.
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